Records show Fani Willis, a Georgia professional prosecutor hired to help prosecute former President Trump, donated $4,300 to his campaign for office.
John Floyd, a prominent Atlanta attorney and partner at Bondurant Mixon & Elmore, was hired by Willis in 2021 to help prosecute the former president. Mr. Floyd is one of the leading experts on Georgia’s complex and complicated extortion laws, which are at play in the high-profile case against the former president.
One expert told Fox News Digital that while there are no ethical, legal or conflict of interest issues with Floyd’s donations, past campaign contributions add to Willis’ “optical” issues. He said it was possible.
Public records show Mr. Floyd made two contributions to Mr. Willis’ district attorney campaign: $2,800 on March 20, 2020 and $1,500 on June 25, 2020, for a total of $4,300.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testifies during a hearing in the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump case at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on February 15, 2024. (Alyssa Pointer)
“John Floyd’s contributions to Willis’ campaign and subsequent service as a RICO special counsel raise ethical, legal, and conflict-of-interest issues, regardless of his political leanings or affiliations. “No,” said constitutional law expert John Schuh. Both the George H.W. Bush administration and the George W. Bush administration.
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“Mr. Floyd is a well-known and respected litigator and RICO expert, and others at his law firm also donated to Mr. Willis’ campaign. And none of them have contributed to Mr. Willis’ campaign in 2020. “We had no way of knowing this happened in the spring and summer of 2019. There will be a Trump RICO lawsuit,” Shu added.
However, Schuh said, “When Willis hired Nathan Wade, acknowledging their romantic relationship, regardless of when the relationship began, Willis created significant optics and conflict of interest issues for himself.” ” he said.
“Wade appears to have no felonies or RICO. [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] He has a lot of experience and Willis pays him $100 an hour more than he pays Floyd, Shu said.
Special Counsel Nathan Wade testifies during a hearing in the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump case at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on February 15, 2024. (Alyssa Pointerpool/Getty Images)
“She didn’t have to disclose Mr. Floyd’s donation and it would be in the public record anyway, but now it would make an already bad situation for Wade even worse. She could It would have been better to be as transparent as possible and disclose everything from the beginning,” Shu pointed out.
Willis and Wade both acknowledged having an affair but denied any allegations of cheating. Both men testified in court last week that Ms. Wills always repaid Mr. Wade’s travel expenses in cash and that there were no receipts for those refunds.
Testimony about the beginning of their relationship comes after one witness said there was “no question” that Wills and Wade’s “romantic” relationship began in 2019, before Wade was hired in 2021. is contradictory.
Floyd told Fox News Digital in an email that the donations to his campaign “were made long before the election and could not have been related to events that did not occur or could not have been anticipated at the time.” No,” he said.
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“I contributed to Ms. Willis’ campaign because of my personal experience, including serving as her co-counsel during a seven-month trial in 2014-2015, and I believe she will be an excellent district attorney. “Because I knew it would be the case, and the voters came to the same conclusion and voted for me,” said Floyd, a four-term incumbent.
Judge Scott McAfee at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on February 15th. (Alyssa Pointer, Getty Images)
Floyd added that he previously served as a special assistant district attorney under prosecutors from both political parties and under an attorney general who was elected as a Democrat but later switched to Republican affiliation.
He then served under his Democratic successor. As a special assistant district attorney, Floyd said he helped prosecute the sheriff, who was elected as a Democrat.
“No one has ever questioned my objectivity on these issues, and there’s no reason to worry about that now,” Floyd said.
Public records also show that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the Trump case and will decide whether to disqualify Mr. Willis from prosecuting Mr. Trump and his co-defendants, also donated to Mr. Willis’ campaign. It is shown.
In 2020, McAfee donated $150 to Willis’ campaign while an assistant U.S. attorney at the Justice Department before he was appointed to the bench.
McAfee held a two-day hearing last week to review evidence in Willis’ motion to be disbarred from the case.
The defense’s key witness, Terrence Bradlee, a former law firm partner and Mr. Wade’s divorce attorney, declined to answer certain questions citing attorney-client privilege. Mr. Lee made a bombshell statement. Judge McAfee said he would meet with Mr. Bradley “in camera” to determine whether his claims of privilege were accurate.
Mr McAfee said Mr Bradley’s confession led to renewed questions about Mr Bradley’s refusal to answer what he knew about Mr Wade’s romantic relationship with Fanny Willis and when he knew about it. He said that he was going to be arrested. Bradley declined to answer, citing attorney-client privilege.
“Mr. Bradley previously testified that his reasons for leaving the company were completely and completely covered by privilege. In response to questions from the state, he laid out a factual scenario, but in my opinion However, I don’t understand how that has anything to do with government privilege.”So now I’m wondering if Mr. Bradley has been interpreting privilege properly thus far.”McAfee the judge said.
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Mr McAfee is expected to decide whether Mr Bradley should return to the stand to further examine the evidence.
Neither Willis nor McAfee responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
